Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.

Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who are serious. In politics, the rare candidate who is serious, like Adlai Stevenson, is easily overwhelmed by one who is solemn, like General Eisenhower. This is probably because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, especially in politics, but comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is as commonplace as jogging.